An Evening with Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker

The vital collaboration between Sean Baker and Taipei-born Shih-Ching Tsou, began when both were studying editing at The New School in Manhattan in the early aughts and born, per Tsou, of a mutual desire to make films “true to life,” which now spans more than 20 years, beginning with 2004’s Take Out—co-directed, co-written, co-produced, and co-edited by the duo, about an undocumented Chinese immigrant struggling to make good on a debt to snakehead smugglers—continuing through to the breakout success of the Baker-directed Tangerine and, most recently, with Tsou’s solo directorial debut, a delicate, deeply humane family drama and Taiwan’s submission for Best International Feature, Left-Handed Girl, co-written with Baker. Our one-day retro, with Tsou and Baker in house, pays tribute to one of the most crucial alliances in contemporary independent filmmaking.